“Pretentious”, “ridiculous”, “navel”: this new film about confinement receives icy reviews

Out of timeand above ground?

The new film by Olivier Assayas, Out of time, perfectly underlines why he is one of the protagonists of French auteur cinema. In 1h45, it offers itself the autobiographical account of his imprisonment spent with his brother Michka and their companions. A confinement spent in the beautiful house of their childhood, located in the Chevreuse valley and which became their country home. Olivier Assayas is played here by his favorite actor Vincent Macaigne and the famous Paul, and his brother, the music journalist Michka Assayas, is played by Micha Lescot, under the name Étienne. Nove d’Urso and Norah Hamzawi also play their respective companions, Morgane and Carole.

The pandemic and its first lockdown were events whose impact was profound at the time and afterward. Who were we at that moment? What has this unprecedented confinement revealed to everyone, what memories, sensations, reflections has it inspired? Out of time you look at the nominal value. With this very intimate story, Olivier Assayas shows his hygienist obsessions, the anxiety of a still world and his dive into a previous time. A time still present in which together with their brother they evoke their youth and the ghostly youth of their parents, of their bourgeois and intellectual heritage, which haunts the house.

Out of time it is an experimental film, with a monological narration – Olivier Assayas’ voice provides a very written and talkative narration – and dialogues between the characters, once again very written. Here it is not the images that make sense, but what is said. And what is said is very cultured, cultured, referenced, intelligent. It’s hard to escape like this the caricature of a disconnected worldfor whom the inconveniences of confinement are largely mitigated by ultra-privileged living conditions.

Slurred speech and irritated criticism

If the casting is very good, Out of time he doesn’t seem sure of his intentions. The film anchors its beginning to the pandemic’s invitation to start from scratch, but it seems to have no middle ground, no end, and therefore no destination. This lack of clarity, combined with the unconscious caricature of an intellectual elite, has to a large extent destabilized and annoyed the spectators who discovered it in cinemas.

So, for a spectator who granted it to him a rating of 1/5 on Allociné, Out of time East “pretentious, snobbish and bourgeoisSame story and same note for another viewer, who allows himself a warning:

I make a serious appeal to all filmmakers tempted to film their little world: this type of umbilical, snobbish and talkative film no longer works!

As far as professional criticism goes, it’s not much better. The cinema notebooks then write that the film is “corroded by vanity, and the self-irony that the filmmaker would like to demonstrate appears as a further expression of his tenderness towards himselfWe can note that in fact the film’s self-irony focuses on regressive behaviors linked to the pandemic, which were funny at the time but are now dated. And not really about the ostentation of bourgeois culture and the egocentric concerns of the characters.

At the house of First, Out of time he didn’t convince him either.

Vincent Macaigne, with his slow and rigorously affected phrasing, has the heavy responsibility of embodying the filmmaker here. A filmmaker who rewards us with a totally ridiculous pseudo-Truffaldian voice-over.

For Western FranceThierry Chèze evokes a “abysmal boredom“. In the end, Out of time so it just seems to find favor in the eyes of Marie Claire AND Teleramawhich celebrate his self-irony and emotion.

Source: Cine Serie

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